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“Unless ye shall believe that I am, ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:24 JND).
“And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel…and they shall say to me, What is His name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM…I AM hath sent me unto you” (Exodus 3:13-14).
We see in the Old Testament that God identified Himself to Moses and the children of Israel with the title I AM—the ever-existent One. Then in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus takes this same name, showing clearly to the Jews that He was the Jehovah of the Old Testament. God in Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, was not revealed before the Lord Jesus came into the world, although there were hints given in the Old Testament. But when the Lord Jesus came, He identified Himself as the One who had spoken to Moses in the Old Testament.
More than this, it was most important to recognize who the Lord Jesus was. Those who refused to accept His Person would die in their sins, for to reject the deity of the Son of God is to reject the One who wants to be our Savior. If the Lord Jesus is not the Son of God, then we have no Savior. Sadly, many of the Jews rejected Him as the Son of God, and refused to believe.
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